!!!Wopfner, Hermann

b. Innsbruck (Tyrol), May 21, 1876, 
d. Natters (Tyrol), May 10, 1963, historian, folklorist. Professor of 
history at the University of Innsbruck from 1909-1941, founded the 
"Tiroler Heimat" in 1921; founder and head of the Institute of Local 
History and the Historical Development of Settlements in the Alpine 
Countries from 1923. Concentrated on economic history and the 
historical development of settlements, rural culture; after World War 
I initiator of the study of local history of the Tyrol.

!Works
Beitraege der freien baeuerlichen Erbleihe Dt.-Ti. im 
Mittelalter, 1903; Die Lage Tirols zu Ausgang des Mittelalters, 1908; 
Beitraege zur Geschichte der aelteren Markgenossenschaft, 1912; Das 
Tiroler Bauernhaus, 1923; Deutsche Siedlungsarbeit in S-Ti., 1926; Ti. 
Volkskunde, 1932; Bergbauernbuch, 3 parts, 1951-1960.

!Literature
Festschrift zu Ehren H. W., 1948.



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